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SIGMA, 2007 Volume 3, 041, 14 pp. (Mi sigma167)

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Phase Space of Rolling Solutions of the Tippe Top

S. Torkel Glada, Daniel Peterssona, Stefan Rauch-Wojciechowskib

a Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Linköpings Universitet SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden
b Department of Mathematics, Linköpings Universitet, SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden

Abstract: Equations of motion of an axially symmetric sphere rolling and sliding on a plane are usually taken as model of the tippe top. We study these equations in the nonsliding regime both in the vector notation and in the Euler angle variables when they admit three integrals of motion that are linear and quadratic in momenta. In the Euler angle variables $(\theta,\varphi,\psi)$ these integrals give separation equations that have the same structure as the equations of the Lagrange top. It makes it possible to describe the whole space of solutions by representing them in the space of parameters $(D,\lambda,E)$ being constant values of the integrals of motion.

Keywords: nonholonomic dynamics; rigid body; rolling sphere; tippe top; integrals of motion.

MSC: 70E18; 70E40; 70F25; 70K05

Received: September 15, 2006; in final form February 5, 2007; Published online March 9, 2007

Language: English

DOI: 10.3842/SIGMA.2007.041



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